Video tape recorder
Tape recorder designed to record and play back video and audio material from magnetic tape.
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Videocassette recorder
Electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the recording.
In 1953, Dr. Norikazu Sawazaki developed a prototype helical scan video tape recorder.
Video
Electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.
Charles Ginsburg led an Ampex research team developing one of the first practical video tape recorders (VTR).
Helical scan
Method of recording high-frequency signals on magnetic tape.
It is used in open-reel video tape recorders, video cassette recorders, digital audio tape recorders, and some computer tape drives.
VHS
Standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.
From the 1950s, magnetic tape video recording became a major contributor to the television industry, via the first commercialized video tape recorders (VTRs).
Magnetic tape
Medium for magnetic storage, made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.
Devices that record and playback audio and video using magnetic tape are tape recorders and video tape recorders respectively.
Quadruplex videotape
The first practical and commercially successful analog recording video tape format.
High-band, which used a wider bandwidth for recording video to the tape, resulting in higher-resolution video from the video tape recorder (VTR), and
Videotape
Magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition.
Videotape is used in both video tape recorders (VTRs) or, more commonly, videocassette recorders (VCRs) and camcorders.
Ampex
American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff as a spin-off of Dalmo-Victor.
Starting in the 1950s, the company began developing video tape recorders, and later introduced the helical scan concept that make home video players possible.
Reel-to-reel audio tape recording
Magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording tape is spooled between reels.
Reel-to-reel tape was used in early tape drives for data storage on mainframe computers and in video tape recorders.
Digital video
Electronic representation of moving visual images in the form of encoded digital data.
Later on in the 1970s, manufacturers of professional video broadcast equipment, such as Bosch (through their Fernseh division) and Ampex developed prototype digital videotape recorders (VTR) in their research and development labs.